Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher

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Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher was a Soviet intelligence officer and master spy better known by his alias Rudolf Abel, who became famous after his capture in the United States and subsequent Cold War prisoner exchange.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
intelligence officer
spy
alias Rudolf Abel NERFINISHED
burialPlace Donskoye Cemetery NERFINISHED
Moscow NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath lung cancer
convictedOf conspiracy to commit espionage in the United States
countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1903-07-11
dateOfDeath 1971-11-15
employer KGB NERFINISHED
Soviet intelligence services NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Germans from Russia NERFINISHED
exchangedFor Francis Gary Powers NERFINISHED
Frederic Pryor NERFINISHED
familyName Fisher NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork espionage
intelligence
givenName Vilyam NERFINISHED
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
Russian
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
militaryBranch Soviet intelligence NERFINISHED
militaryRank colonel
nativeLanguage Russian
notableAlias Rudolf Abel NERFINISHED
notableEvent Cold War prisoner exchange in 1962
arrest in the United States in 1957
notableFor being a Soviet master spy in the United States
being exchanged for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers
notableWork Soviet espionage in the United States
occupation intelligence officer
spy
participantIn Cold War NERFINISHED
patronymicName Genrikhovich
placeOfBirth Newcastle upon Tyne NERFINISHED
United Kingdom NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Moscow
Russian SFSR NERFINISHED
Soviet Union
placeOfDetention United States NERFINISHED
prisonerExchangeLocation Berlin NERFINISHED
Glienicke Bridge NERFINISHED
residence Moscow
sexOrGender male

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Rudolf Abel birthName Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher